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Kaiyuan Temple (), also known as the Ziyun Hall (), is a Hindu-Buddhist temple in West Street, Quanzhou, China, the largest in Fujian province with an area of .〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kaiyuan Temple )〕 It is one of the very few surviving Hindu temple in mainland China. It was originally built in 685 or 686 during the Tang Dynasty. Behind its main hall "Mahavira Hall”, there are some columns with fragments from a Shiva temple built in 1283 by the Tamil community in Quanzhou dedicated to Hindu God Shiva. The carvings are dispersed across five primary sites in Quanzhou and the neighboring areas. They were made in the South Indian style, and share close similarities with 13th-century temples constructed in the Chola Nadu region in Tamil Nadu. Nearly all of the carvings were carved with greenish-gray granite, which was widely available in the nearby hills and used in the region's local architecture. In 1983, the Kaiyuan Temple was designated as a national temple. File:Kaiyuan Temple - main courtyard - bixi - DSCF8577.JPG|The ancient ''bixi'' turtle. (The stele it used to carry has been lost) File:Kaiyuan Temple - Renshou Pagoda - DSCF8595.JPG|Reshou Pagoda File:Kaiyuan Temple - Zhenguo Pagoda - DSCF8609.JPG|Zhenguo Pagoda (detail) File:Quanzhou Boat.jpg|The Southern Song Quanzhou Ship, exhibited in a special pavilion on the temple's ground ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kaiyuan Temple (Quanzhou)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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